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"Do not forget you mother, when she is old."
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"Children see beauty in everything."
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"You can become a model of a perfect man or a devoted husband and a father in order to show the role of the a man's responsibility for the family."
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"Do not refuse to help your own relatives."
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"A man's work is from sun to sun but a mother's work is never done."
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"Mothers care in volumes of tears and earnestness of prayers and a depth of emotion others cannot fathom."
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"Children are great observers."
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"Never sever ties with a family member you once loved. Each of you might be on different spiritual paths, but both trails are leading you home."
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"You are evidence of your mother's strength, especially if you are a rebellious knucklehead and regardless she has always maintained her sanity."
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"Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle."
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"I always wanted to write something illustrated, and the Details strip finally gave me the opportunity."
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"This is odd, but there are certain things that are really embarrassing to talk about - one is my job and the success that I've had in it, and the other is money."
Money

"I'm trying to read more dead people because I keep having to read stuff for juries and so forth."
People

"My grandfather was a newspaper publisher and his paper had all the comics in NYC, so some of my earliest memories are of reading the family paper and heading straight for the comics insert."
Family

"Nonfiction that uses novelistic devices and strategies to shape the work. That's material that I really like."
Work

"It turns out that my memory is just not that great, so for specific scenes with people doing stuff, sometimes I'd have the details all wrong or I couldn't remember what happened exactly, so I just let that be."
People

"So while it is true that I find really dark stuff funny sometimes, it's also true that as a writer of books I want to have the whole range of human emotions."
Fun

"Maybe when I'm sixty-five I'll talk about my literary life."
Life

"Writing the book was itself a process of concealing and revealing."
Writing

"I suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order."
Faith
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